Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

There are no perfect leaders.

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.

I don’t know what more to say... I did not follow up in the days to come. I did not, I did, I should, I could... Just like that, I let that entire ordeal go.

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

Earnestness is the most important thing.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.